Yemen: Between Iraq and Somalia
... struggle over succession, which effectively overshadows all other activities. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/Pixstream Leonid Issaev: Yemen: Following in Afghanistan’s Footsteps? Today the various different sides are trying to create, or rather revive, the tandem of Egyptian soldiers and Saudi money. However, the prospects for this arrangement seem doubtful because there is no truly positive ... ... dominated by one or two countries, with the other participants a mere formality. The establishment of a NATO-style bloc by the Arab League also appears highly unlikely, as the group unites more than twenty states with sometimes utterly diverse interests,...